Schooner Malay
The schooner Malay, a very old trader to this port, reached the harbour yesterday morning from Port Augusta. She left there on the 17th ult., in company with the barque Newsboy, which arrived…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1891
429 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 22
The New Steamer Ouraka
The new steamer Ouraka, the latest addition to the Adelaide Steamship Company's fine fleet, made her acquaintance with this port on Saturday. Full particulars of the vessel were given in a previous…
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Pilot Kingsford wires from Port Macquarie that, "The Barrangarry lies on the spit nearly abreast the goal, and about 70 yards from the channel, with her head to the northward and listed to…
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Captain Munroe, of the wrecked steamer Truganin, arrived in Sydney on Saturday from the New Hebrides, by the steamer Victoria. Captain Munroe, it will be remembered, remained by the wreck…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreckage at the Fiji Islands
Mr. A. S. Bowman, of Loma Loma, has forwarded to the receiver of wrecks at Suva the following articles washed ashore on the Island of Totoya: A board, with the name of Jiale Tafa,…
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Captain John Hall, of the Sydney Underwriters' Association, accompanied by Diver Briggs, left Sydney on Monday evening by the s.s. Wellington for Port Macquarie, to endeavour to float the…
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THE steamer Lubeck arrived here this morning from Samoa. Among the passengers were the officers and crew of the wrecked Norwegian barque Pussness. They were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Old Steamer Morpeth
The passenger steamer Morpeth, which started running in the Newcastle-Sydney trade so far back as 1862, has just changed hands again. Latterly she became the property of Captain William…
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On February 27, Messrs. William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton, launched a steel screw steamship of about 1500 tons gross register for the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck of the Raven
The cancellation of Captain Swan's certificate at the inquiry held at Fremantle into the loss of the barque Raven has been commented upon in shipping circles. As will be seen from the following…
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ALL hopes of the safety of the lifeboat F. L. Norton, which sailed ninety-seven days ago, from New London for Toulon, France, says an English paper of Feb. 25, have been given…
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The Auckland-owned schooner Waireka, under command of Captain Current reached the harbour yesterday from Kaipara, with a cargo of timber. She left Kaipara on the 30th ulti[?]o, and had a…
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Between midnight on Saturday and 1 o'clock on Sunday morning, the C.R. and M.R.S.N. Co's river steamer Casino, lying at Coraki wharf, heavily laden with the [?]mki's Casino cargo, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wyoming and Oakland Ashore
A Ballina correspondent wired on Monday, that the crossing inside the bar is very shallow, there being only 7ft 6in of water at high tide. Both Mr. Yeager's steamers—the Wyoming and the…
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Captain Prideaux, of the steamer Easby, reports having spoken the three-mated schooner Lord of the Isles, sooth of Gobo, on Sunday last. The schooner is bound from Algoa Bay to Sydney, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Steamer Ouraka and Pilotage
At the last meeting of the Victoria Marine Board a long discussion ensued on the action of the Adelaide Steamship Company, the owners of the over-sea steamer Ouraka, in lacing an exempt…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →South Australia. Mail Steamer in Quarantine
When the R.M.S. Britannia reached the anchorage at Port Adelaide, on Monday, it was found by the health officer that there was a case of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Wreck of the Wanaka
The U.S.S. Company's steamer Wanaka, which recently went ashore on the Puketapu Reef, near New Plymouth, is expected to become a total wreck, all efforts to float her, according to latest…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Chilian Revolution. Barque Aino Run Ashore
LONDON, Wednesday.—The Norwegian barque Aino, 574 tone, Captain Olsen, from Newcastle January 20, for Valparaiso, with 843 tons of coal, has been run ashore, by…
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A sires from Western Australia advises the total wreck of the Maid of Lincoln, iron steamer, of 77 [?] burthen. She was owned by nymon, Hammond, and Hubble, and was built at Dungarra…
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